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There is a shadow cast over the student uprisings of 2024. Details of the events and memories of the moment’s promise are fading at various campuses. Efforts to eviscerate the student movements’ tenacious energy are palpable, but not accidental. Most … Continue reading “In the Shadows of Genocide: The US Palestine Movement and the Promise of the 2024 Student Uprising”
I remember that at a certain point we began to break stuff. It’s really fun to smash up things, frankly, I think it’s a fantasy most people have—throwing a television set out the window if they only could…I found myself … Continue reading “Walking Through Walls and Scaling the Roof: Direct Action to End the Genocide in Palestine”
Before Everything Fell Apart When people outside Gaza say the war is over, nineteen-year-old Nour Al-Ajla doesn’t know what to make of it. “Maybe it’s over for them,” she says quietly, “but not for me. My war still wakes me … Continue reading “The War Is Over, But Mine Is Not: Nour’s Story”
Down to the day, fifty-five years ago, on November 19, 1970, James Baldwin wrote Angela Davis a letter now published in an online forum called History Is a Weapon. At that point in history, Davis was arrested and held in … Continue reading “Future Is a Weapon”
Students are often the first to remind the rest of the university that classrooms and campuses are not rehearsal spaces protected from a “real world” but are the very site at which to world-build against capitalism and coloniality. The current … Continue reading “Scholasticide and the Securitized State: Recontextualizing the Student Intifada”
October 4, 2025 Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, the Dan David Prize is one of many Israel-based awards that attempt to legitimize the Israeli state and its policies on a world stage. Along with the Wolf Prize, awarded to “Scientists … Continue reading “The Dan David Prize Amid a Genocide?”
Three Days of Isolation They don’t just cut the internet, they cut the thread that keeps us connected to the world— and to ourselves. No news. No messages. No way to say “I am still alive.” For three days, we … Continue reading “Three Poems”
How should an anti-Zionist Jew respond to the genocide in Gaza and its ramifications? This was the subject of my book To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7 (2025). It was published on January 20, … Continue reading “Undefeated Despair”
In March 2025, comrades from across the San Franciso Bay Area and beyond gathered across two facilitated convergence spaces to host Nick Mirzoeff and explore his concept of “seeing in the dark,” a provocation currently in circulation through his recently … Continue reading “Visual Activism C-Map”
All day, the talk is lint. Committees meet and look at their calendars. The carpet hardly moves. The lobby doesn’t even smell of corpses. It’s Monday here. There’s a salad bar here. In Rafah, a wall is blown off … Continue reading “The Clock Men”
“Do You Condemn Hamas?” Do you know the weight of 77 years’ worth of bones, villages, and homes? The sound of olive trees screaming through flames? Do you confuse prison break With apocalypse, Genocide with self-defense, Or do you know … Continue reading “Five Poems”
Look at the world that was blind to us before and how it sees us now. –Ibrahim Nasrallah, translated by Huda J. Fakhreddine, Palestinian: Four Poems Here are some notes from the two days of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s Bay Area … Continue reading ““All-over-the-placelessness”: I Read To See in the Dark from the Inside Out”
How to do things with being undone? How to forge solidary bonds in the dark of the rubble of a world destroyed but also the dark of a collective unconscious, a night, a space for sounding otherwise? To open Nicholas … Continue reading “To Bond in the Dark”
I would like to take this opportunity to contextualize Nicholas Mirzoeff’s To See in the Dark as part of VAGABONDS, the series of short, pamphlet-like books I edit for Pluto Press. I founded VAGABONDS in 2020 based on three frustrations. … Continue reading “A Vagabond in the Rubble, a Book in the Dark”
